21 Lessons for the 21st Century

It is therefore more accurate to see even the Islamic State as an errant offshoot of the global culture we all share, rather than as a branch of some mysterious alien tree

If we want to prevent the concentration of all wealth and power in the hands of a small elite, the key is to regulate the ownership of data

Property is a prerequisite for long-term inequality

Democracy in its present form cannot survive the merger of biotech and infotech. Either democracy will successfully reinvent itself in a radically new form, or humans will come to live in ‘digital dictatorships’

The main handicap of authoritarian regimes in the twentieth century – the attempt to concentrate all information in one place – might become their decisive advantage in the twenty-first century